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Re: Patton
Posted: 29 Jun 06 3:08 AM
Yes, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, and Stanley Baker played Lt. John Rouse Marriott Chard, commanding at Rourke's Drift.  That was Caine's first big part in the movies.  "Zulu Dawn," filmed much later, starring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Bob Hoskins, etc., etc., covered the defeat at Islandwanda (sp?) which preceded the battle at Rourke's Drift and was a pretty good movie in its own right.  The two together cover the major events of the 1879 Zulu war.
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Re: Patton
Posted: 02 Jul 06 4:36 PM

 Finucane wrote
D-shot:  I'll hold off giving you my impressions of  "Syriana" and "Munich" until you've had a chance to see those movies and then we can compare analyses.  We watch a movie here almost every night of the week, some very good and others absolutely abysmally awful.  I must own 200 movies (DVD & VHS), my all-time favorites.  But man, how many times can you watch "Zulu" in one year?

Dan

 

My brothers told me not to watch either Munich or Syriana unless I wanted to kill something, and I trust me brothers when they say that, so I'll hold off on that. As for "Zulu," I belive the answer comes down to at most, once a month if you don't want to start overanalising it as some people are prone to doing...

As for my favorite all-time favorite, I have to say "Soldier of Orange."

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